SWChris

I like memes and games. This account used to explore religion and politics, hopefully respectfully. Hit me if I start monologuing. Engagements ≠ Endorsements.

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@Warbreaker_VZ @BMcGrewvy @kvallier And I said that's necessary but not sufficient for adhering to the new covenant. Have a nice day! 🙃

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@Warbreaker_VZ @BMcGrewvy @kvallier And I'm saying that's not merely the New Covenant.

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@Warbreaker_VZ @BMcGrewvy @kvallier That's not the New Covenant.

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@AmazonHelp Report submitted. Thank you!

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Some asshole in the Amazon warehouse stole my copy of Ocarina of Time and shoved an empty bubble mailer inside instead, folded in the shape of the box.

Now amazon is out of foil covers so I have to pay $15 extra and can't use my amazon gift card to get it from another store. :(

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@AmazonHelp I missed this. I'm not on here very often. I did contact customer support the normal way and got a call center in India. I asked them to escalate the issue and he said he did. I think. Not sure! :)

DMs might work better for this.

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@BMcGrewvy https://t.co/SQNUkeFihx

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@MichaelFKane Good news, everyone!

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whiffed that one! lol

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Before I disappear again, here's a vibes-based election prediction.

It's milquetoast: We're not getting that blue tsunami. The red wall won't hold for both houses, either.

Pretty safe bet. But for the tea leaf readers... Al Sayed loses, barely. 50/50 senate. Just a guess.

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I for one am glad my vacation from Twitter allowed me to miss the Anakin discourse and to only see this gem of a thread. What a beautiful conclusion.

After years of being a Luke fan, it made me see what was deep down so appealing about Han.

[Jordan Hall @jgreenhall]

Greetings young Sith, let’s have a chat.

Your essay is insightful and, at its core, substantially correct. I accept your reading of the Boomer generation and the mythology of Star Wars. The aesthetics, the simplistic moral universe, the endless recasting of every political disagreement into a struggle between liberators and Nazis, the treatment of Alderaan as a rubber stamp reading VILLAIN, the discovery that the hippies eventually became the Jedi Council, and the extraordinary hypocrisy of a generation that overthrew its fathers and now regards succession as an existential threat.

All of it. The frame is good. It is thick enough to be genuinely useful, even as it exposes the remarkable thinness, and frankly the stupidity, of the worldview it describes.

But something important is missing.

An entire generation, in fact.

And the absence of Generation X from your account reveals a larger story. One that makes sense of the Boomer mythology, explains why it took the form that it did, and introduces a rather serious problem with your proposed solution.

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Republicans need a similar come to Jesus moment too. Too many groypers running around over there in Washington.

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I'm rooting for the Democrats to have this conversation about what kind of party they want to be. Marxist or moderate. And hopefully she just forced it to happen.

[Rachael Bade @rachaelmbade]

Haley Stevens isn't dumb.

She knew before she backed Mike Rogers that she was abt to become the Democratic Party's greatest pariah this cycle. And that she'd never resurrect her political career if she did this.

If AES loses, she gets blamed. If he wins, she looks weak.

There is no political upside to what she did.

And yet she chose to do it anyway. Bc clearly she felt it was the right thing to do -- despite all the voices in her ear telling her not to.

Gutsy.

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okay maybe slightly more than just barely lol

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Before I disappear again, here's a vibes-based election prediction.

It's milquetoast: We're not getting that blue tsunami. The red wall won't hold for both houses, either.

Pretty safe bet. But for the tea leaf readers... Al Sayed loses, barely. 50/50 senate. Just a guess.

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For Al Sayed specifically, I can't measure the vibes in Michigan because I don't live there. That's why it's a guess, based on his reported weakness among some key racial demographics; Jews and Blacks.

[SWChris @SWChrisCreative]

Before I disappear again, here's a vibes-based election prediction.

It's milquetoast: We're not getting that blue tsunami. The red wall won't hold for both houses, either.

Pretty safe bet. But for the tea leaf readers... Al Sayed loses, barely. 50/50 senate. Just a guess.

[SWChris @SWChrisCreative]

That's a big reason why the blue tsunami looks like it can happen, why you're seeing other indications that it's not as strong as some want it to be, and why there's nothing dispositive either way.

We'll have to wait to see if this explanation makes sense of the results.

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"Good storytelling resists such simplistic ideological labels."

I always look sideways at folks who think Star Wars is leftist--they invariably point out the Vietnam ties but ignore everything else--or who wonder why cons like Star Trek, which is about virtue, honor, and duty.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

Absolute Batman is one of the most important comic books in the last 40 years.

Calling it “progressive” is a horrible injustice to the depth of art and story it presents— and I would say the same if someone labeled it “conservative.”

Good storytelling resists such simplistic ideological labels.

@Ssnyder1835 has political public opinions, but like good writers used to do, he appears aware enough of those inclinations to not allow his writing to descend into propaganda.

If anything, the books could just as easily be labeled “populist” as they explore perhaps the deepest unifying fear in our current zeitgeist which crosses all party lines:

Are we powerless to stop “elites” who appear to do whatever they want and never face judgment for their sins?

The author of this piece also called these stories “grim,” which is a complete misreading of how Absolute Batman responds to that question.

Absolute Batman is brutalist hopecore.

It is relentlessly hopeful. It is celebrates the virtues Batman has traditionally embodied, but dialed up to 11 in this magnificently absurd elseworld.

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@alnwick1098 @gootecks @LookAtMyMeat1 Especially since the OP has said he wants to make them suffer. So yeah, of course they wanted to keep it private, because people like the OP ruin things out of sheer boredom.

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Well, not much gets me to come back to X, but Patrick Stewart passing away did it.

I'm watching through the Star Trek franchise in chronological order and while I've greatly enjoyed his other roles, Captain Picard is the one that meant the most.